Which Chip?

Jafant, When the EMC1 UP was in production, OPPO didn't even exist. I can't even imagine on what stereo5 has based his/her assumption of the OPPO being the base of the EMC player.

As a dedicated player, it's simply one of the best. I owned it once, which, regretfully, I sold, but I got lucky to find a brand new unit, which I'm going to receive next week.

By the way, you can turn the Oppo into an 8 Digital Out player as well, letting you use any choice of external DAC's with lots of options.

Since the player is based on the Oppo, I would say there is a good chance it is the ESS chip.

I'm not so sure, as the way the Oppo's are built, the entire output board is easily replaceable.  So for instance, it would be possible to do anything from
using balanced DAC outputs to digital only outputs a'la AudioPraise.

Best,


Erik